Fresh round of thunderstorms brewing south of the border

A reader named Mike emailed this image of the sky just east of Escondido.

The line of thunderstorms that extended from Pine Valley to Palomar has fizzled, but the National Weather Service says there is a lot of convection about 30 miles south of Boulevard and Campo.

The thunderstorms could swirl into southeastern San Diego County by 5 p.m. today. The county took a similar hit just before 5 p.m. on Tuesday.

Shirley Jones at Cuyamaca Rancho State Park said the campground at Paso Picacho had a lot of lightning. “It was rumbling pretty good,” starting around 1 p.m., Jones said.

Through 3 p.m., the weather service had recorded about 300 lightning bolts in the skies above San Diego County, many of which hit the ground. Firefighters were hustling in the eastern portion of the county, extinguishing small fires.

Today's storm dropped almost 1 inch of rain at Mt. Laguna and Lake Cuyamaca, and 0.29'' at Julian.

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